Recent Aspects of Quantum Fields

This volume addresses graduate students and researchers in quantum field theory and mathematical physics. The pedagogically well-written contributions deal with, among other topics, various aspects of quantum chromodynamics and quantum gravity.

Inhalt
Chiral effective Lagrangians.- The spins inside the proton and chiral symmetry breaking.- Light-cone quantization of quantum chromodynamics.- Conceptual and geometrical problems in quantum gravity.- Two-dimensional gravities and supergravities as integrable systems.- Recent developments in relativistic thermal field theories.- Nonexistence of scattering theory at finite temperature.